East Stroudsburg Salvation Army seeks to help 600 families for Easter

The Salvation Army is celebrating Easter by providing holiday food for the needy and emphasizing Easter's meaning and symbolic relevance to Americans' lives.

The Salvation Army is celebrating Easter by providing holiday food for the needy and emphasizing Easter's meaning and symbolic relevance to Americans' lives.

"Our goal is to raise $42,000 to provide almost 600 families with Easter holiday food, and a message of hope and renewal," said Major James Gingrich of the East Stroudsburg Corps.

He points out that for as little as $70, the Salvation Army can provide food to a struggling family for a week.

"That's all it takes to keep these people from hitting bottom. When we provide food to a needy person or family, it often opens the door for us to use our healing ministries to help address their other problems."

For information about how to contribute to the East Stroudsburg Salvation Army, call 570-421-3050, or go to EastStroudsburgSalvationArmy.org.

As part of their mission, East Stroudsburg Salvation Army also will provide this year grants for rent, utility assistance, medicine and food for more than 1,500 families in desperate need; visiting more than 2,000 lonely, hurting people in nursing homes and correctional facilities throughout Monroe County for perhaps the only visits they'll receive this year; providing more than 5,000 meals to hungry men, women and children in Monroe County; and giving 200 disadvantaged children the opportunity to experience summer camp.

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